 Kids in homework club enjoy gifts from Wolftrap Elementary School.
WordMasters Challenge™
Several students representing Mosby Woods Elementary recently received a perfect score in the first of three meets in this year’s WordMasters Challenge™—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 150,000 students annually.
Competing in the very difficult Gold Division of the WordMasters Challenge™, fourth grader Clara Bruner and sixth graders Colleen Duggar, Varun Gala, Dylan Nguyen, Amaria Reese and Ethan Whitlock each earned a perfect score of 20 on the challenge. Nationally, only 58 fourth graders and 98 sixth graders achieved this result. Other students from Mosby Woods Elementary who achieved outstanding results in the meet include fourth grader Charles Sorrel and fifth graders Joshua Cho and Angela Liu.
The students were coached in preparation for the WordMasters Challenge™ by their classroom teachers. The WordMasters Challenge™ is an exercise in critical thinking that first encourages students to become familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of logical relationships. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically. Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters Challenge™ materials have been specifically created for younger students in grades three through eight. They are particularly well suited for children who are motivated by the challenge of learning new words and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by analogies.
Congratulations to all our wordsmiths!
Scrawl Books Event
Everyone is invited to participate in Scrawl's Youth Media Awards Celebration being held on Monday, January 28 at 7:00 p.m. Local librarians, including our own Mrs. Brown, will lead a discussion on the newly-announced Newbery, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King awards.
Event date:
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 7:00 p.m.
Event address:
11911 Freedom Dr
Reston, VA 20190
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Love is in the air: Candy grams will be on sale next week!
Would you like to make someone feel special on Valentine’s Day? Individual and small order candy sales for students will begin on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 from 8:20- 9:00 a.m. in the Mosby Woods Library. Sales will continue on 1/31 and 2/1 at the same time and place. Extra selling days/times will be added as needed.
If you’d like to order candy grams for an entire classroom, please email Carrie Levis (6th grade teacher) with your name and your child's name and classroom teacher. Our team of 6th graders will fill out and deliver each order by February 14th. Each candy gram costs $1.
Things to remember for individual sales:
- Turn in completed pink forms to Ms. Levis' mailbox or to your teacher.
- Students must fill out the pink valentines with ALL information and turn them in on time!
- If you do NOT turn in the pink form the valentine cannot be delivered.
- 6th graders will be on hand to help out!
Proceeds will benefit the 6th grade field trip and t-shirts.
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International Night
Please join us for International Night on Tuesday, February 12 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (snow date: February 26). At International Night you can travel around the school and enjoy cultural displays, crafts, & food from across the continents; visit the library for performances such as storytelling, dancing, and singing; or come to the gym to see one of the two fashion shows. We hope you'll join us as we celebrate the great diversity of Mosby Woods!
Each year we always have a wide representation of the diversity that we are so lucky to have at Mosby Woods! We'd love for you and your family to contribute something from your country of heritage or from a country you know well. All sign-ups and registrations will be online only. If you and your family would like to participate and/or volunteer, please register by January 30.
Check out some of the photos from last year's International Night.
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Career Fair
Parents, we are currently recruiting for our 2019 Career Fair. The fair will be held at Mosby Woods ES on March 20, 2019. We are looking for a wide variety of presenters to showcase their careers at booths during the fair. Presenters can sign up for one or both sessions and are welcome to stay for lunch: Primary Grades (Head Start-3rd grade): 9:30 a.m.-11:10 a.m., Lunch: 11:10 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Upper Grades (4th-6th grades): 12:20 p.m.-2:20 p.m. Please reach out to Carole Linehan, Ashley Dwyer, or Laura Zinn with any questions! Be sure to sign up here!
Check out the pictures from the 2018 Career Fair.
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 Thanks to the Clifton Women’s club for your donation of school supplies.
Parents: We want to hear your views on technology and learning!
Be a part of the conversation! Starting now, we will be participating in the Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning. Speak Up is and was the first online research tool designed to help parents share their ideas directly with schools and national policymakers. Speak Up provides parents with a mechanism for expressing their views to the administrators at their child(ren)’s school and district about key issues impacting their child(ren)'s education.
Since 2003, Speak Up has collected and shared the views of more than 5.4 million students, teachers, and parents from all 50 states, as well as internationally. By participating in Speak Up, parents are expressing their views to a wider audience of local, state, and national policy makers as well as the business community—and contributing to the national dialogue about how best to prepare students for the future.
Speak Up is open to students, educators and parents; it’s quick and easy to get involved. This is an optional survey. To participate, visit: this link and select the Parent option.
All participation is confidential. Questions take about 20 minutes to complete.
We appreciate you taking the time to share your views with us! We need your input!
Upcoming Events
January 25
Student Holiday - Teacher Workday
February 4
Student Holiday - Teacher Workday
February 12
International Night 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
February 19
PTA Meeting 6:30 p.m.
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